Not denying that there are Benson fans in the States, personally I think he’s a great guy and love to talk hockey or freediving with him, however the roly poly thing in the first shot was also Kendall. He's been doing that among some other funny things as part of a warm up for about as long as Benson's been playing. Loads of folks have laughed at it, especially we had a get together with the Canadians in Montreal about 6 months prior to '98 worlds and a bunch of the Montreal boys were laughing at it saying things like when are you going to do that in a game how silly, etc... but really the point is everything you'd said in the earlier post its not necessarily direct practice for a game move but just getting used to moving with the puck and keeping control... plus in this type of television spot and to people that have never seen the sport its kinda flashy.

To expand this in a few other sports i've played a large part of conditioning was movements that are a bit disorientating or abnormal to get used to moving in ways you might otherwise not be used to. We tried to work that into our team warm up in Sheffield but there was just not enough space and time, especially when we had some guys that couldn’t swim upside down and straight at the same time.

As far as game use and the barrel role, in mixed level games there are a few of us around Club puck that use it in much the same way as your first vid clip, but I wouldn’t use it in an A game or higher usually because of how exposed and blind you are for part of the move.